To not want BOYZONE or worse SUSAN BOYLE for Mother's Day

[Charly123]

Every year I get a CD - every year I drop great hints - every year they are ignored and every year I have to act as if it's the greatest gift in the world.

Who buys them? If you have DH/P he should be getting involved, frankly!

LOL - what would you like??

Be less subtle in your hinting!!

Stop with the hints, be obvious.

Oh god SB she's awful, don't boyzone make your ears bleed. That kind of thing swiftly followed by, i want Englebert Humperdicks new album for mothers day, thanks.

What gets me are the adverts on tv for dodgy cds, which end with the words "great gift for mothers day".For whose mother exactly? I know I don't want them and I don't think my mum would either!

I hate those Mothers Day compilation albums!
It's always the same boring shite on them. They are sooo patronising and sterotypical of what people think mums listen to.

The whole music industry thinks that music isn't really 'for' women. That's why compilations marketed at women are always appalling synthetic mundane shit that no one with higher cognitive functions can bear (any and all X factor shit, faceless muppets covering 60 standards...) spiked with one or two good-to-great pop songs that would be all very well if you didn;t have them on every single compilation you possess anyway (I will Survive, Sisters Are Doing It, anything by Girls Aloud).
This is of course also why the only female musicians who get well marketed are the ones who are mediocre but 'pretty' or talented but inofensive and pretty - no one would sign the likes of Poly Styrene or Patti Smith today.

YANBU. Good post SGB. However, I think you would love to receive this CD. I would imagine it is completely to your taste.

I never get a Mother's Day present, so I feel entirely justified in buying the new Gorillaz cd for myself.

Bitch loudly about how crap all marketed at mums albums are.

My dad took back my christmas Present 3 days before christmas once after I had a 10 minute tirade about how much I hated that particular artist. (I didn't know he'd bought it for me)

This only happened to me once, last year! DH must have completely lost the plot/ been suckered in by advertising, because he bought me one of those mother's day type CDs (given that my usual genre is hard rock/ punk/ goth, I cannot imagine what came over him!)

I am usually very gracious about any present, but I just couldn't contain my bewilderment! I took the micky out of him most severely and gave the CD to HIS mum- sorted!

YANBU!

When you see some of the albums aimed at Mothers Day you have to wonder who the hell these mothers are who are supposed to like this stuff!

Thankfully my DD (and DH if he is consulted) would know better than to get me something like that.

My DH and DS know not to even consider getting me those sorts of albums as a present - they know that extreme physical violence would immediately follow . But I find the trick is to completely forget about "hints" and provide a list of the things you would like, complete with detailed version information if necessary. DH always has a list of at least half-a-dozen CDs I'd like, ready to pick from. On that basis, my lovely romantic Valentines day present was a Hawkwind album - far more to my liking than any "womens" compilation garbage.

Likewise I have a list of stuff he'd like, so never feel tempted by rock anthem compilations labelled as "pefect for Father's Day"!

DD got me a copy of Peter Andres CD for my birthday last week.

It wasn't really, it was The Smiths, however she had printed a copy of Pete and stuck it in the CS case so she could see the look on my face!

Little cow

I wonder how many staff at the record company had to go out and buy Susan Boyle's album to get it to no. 1. Because I've never met a single person who liked her.

I'm so glad someone has posted about this - those adverts make me seethe.

My children have bought me a ticket to see MGMT in London next week and the new CDs by Gorillaz and TwoDoorCinema Club.

AMumInScotland, I love Hawkwind - what album did you get?

Hawkwind itself - the first one. But Quark, Strangeness and Charm is also on my current wishlist. I'm missing a lot of my old cassettes now I don't have a player in my car any more, and keep remembering stuff I haven't heard in ages.

AMIS: Wow! Is that the one with Hurry On Sundown on? One of my clains tofame crapness is I broke a rib climbing on stage at a Hawkwind gig in 1984.
Yes I am that old.

The other thing that appals me is albums of 'romantic' or 'seduction' music. Which are always packed with songs performed by people you either can't believe have any genitals (Ronan Keating, Abba) or people who the thought of them having sex makes you shit yourself with horror (Ken Dodd, Susan Boyle).
I would rather a man tried to pull me with this
(Oh, warning, song has a Naughty Word so not work or DC safe)

I like GOML's DD's style.

Yes it's the one with Hurry On Sundown - I didn't go to any Hawkwind concerts in 1984, but I'm old enough that I could have... I did go to see Rush back about then, who were great, and also Iron Maiden, but in my defence that was just because a boyfriend was very keen on them. He didn't last long....

Yes the "seduction" music is the kind of thing that would have me pulling out of a romantic clinch with DH just to shut the stuff off. Though to be fair, he'd sooner listen to punk anyway so I don't think there's any risk.

silver machine was my favourite

Watched Hawkwind at Queensway hall Dunstable in 1972 when the beeb filmed silver machine for TOTP. Feeling ancient now.

The weird thing is that silver machine doesn't seem to be on any of their old albums - it's on compilations, and as a bonus track on remastered things, but I can't seem to find what album its started out on - if anyone knows, I'd love to hear!

Redbin - that probably does make you a teensy bit older than the average on here... but I'd have loved to have seen bands back then, that's my ideal music time!

iw as htinking this
a CD fgs
who buys cds?
surely only susan boyle fans

I buy CDs, but I am very old.

Ah well, us oldies do still buy CDs But that doesn't automatically make us Susan Boyle fans....